Two Three observations:
"I couldn't tell if it was a fable or if it was badly written."
-- couple leaving theater in Bruce Eric Kaplan New Yorker cartoon (1/19/09)
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"I think a record is something to be consumed and to be experienced by tons of people in different ways and in different lights. Context is everything for some people. Context isn't everything for other people."
-- Justin Vernon, aka Bon Iver, on his album "For Emma, Forever Ago," which he recorded during a winter spent living alone in a remote cabin in the Wisconsin woods
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"Framing is everything. I remember [someone] asked Erland Josephson, who worked with Bergman, 'How did he direct you? What did you do?' And he said, 'He didn't really direct us that much. It was just really where he put the camera.' I think that's true. It's really how, suddenly, the image takes a kind of energy. I'm fascinated by the visual language."
-- Sophie Fiennes, director of "The Pervert's Guide to Cinema"
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Interesting observations. To say nothing of RE-contextualizing.
JE: Ooooh, don't even get me started on recontextualization!
So is that cartoon supposed to be about Slumdog Millionaire? :)
JE: No, "Doubt"!
I like listening to music best in my car. The moving scenery gives it a changing visual context that makes it feel like film.
Something about a cabin in winter and talk of open context makes me think of Tarkovsky. Was he from Wisconsin?
I love that album.
A thing can be understood many ways. It depends on individual thinking. Each person can take it in different way.
Kate
The visual language of camera movement and placement is indeed facinating. Only I know so little about it. Any suggestions where a man can learn more?
No direction, just moving the camera? Maybe it really is all about editing. Editing creates context.
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